[Postoperative outcome of 30 patients with navicular bone fractures-In connection with AOFAS-Score, SF-12 and fracture classifications].

Background: Fractures of the navicular bone are rare and the number of those treated surgically is even smaller. Moreover, scientific analyses on this topic are only sporadically present in the literature, therefore this retrospective and monocentric study was initiated.

Methods: A total of 30 patients with 30 fractures were included.

Surgery Within 24 Hours Reduces Mortality and General Complication Rates in Patients Who Have Periprosthetic Femoral Fractures at the Hip.

Background: In patients who have hip fractures, treatment within 24 hours reduces mortality and complication rates. A similar relationship can be assumed for patients who have hip periprosthetic femoral fractures (PPFs) owing to the similar baseline characteristics of the patient populations. This monocentric retrospective study aimed to compare the complication and mortality rates in patients who had hip PPF treated within and after 24 hours.

[Treatment aspects of interprosthetic femur fractures-retrospective analysis of 70 patients].

Background: Interprosthetic femur fractures (IFF) are rare injuries, whose surgical treatment is basically with osteosynthesis or revision arthroplasty. Various therapy algorithms have been proposed based on very small study collectives. Factors influencing the outcome are not known.

[Operative treatment of distal radial fractures under vitamin K antagonist or DOAC : Is preoperative interruption of these drugs necessary?].

Background: Scientific data on emergency operations during ongoing treatment with vitamin K antagonists or with direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) are lacking, because interruption or bridging of this treatment is routinely performed for up to several days. To reduce time delays and to simplify this procedure, we perform operations of distal radial fractures immediately and without interruption of antithrombotic medication.

Material And Methods: For this retrospective and monocentric study, we included only patients with distal radial fractures treated within 12 h after diagnosis with open reduction and volar plating and who received anticoagulation with a vitamin K antagonist or DOAC.

Two-thousand hip fractures treated within 12 h and > 12-24 h after admission: Are survival and adverse events affected?

Background: The effects of immediate operation on hip fracture (HF) are unclear. Therefore, we investigated the influence of time to operation within 12 h vs. > 12-24 h on survival and adverse events.

[The PHILOS plate-also an indication for osteosynthesis of the distal tibia?].

According to the manufacturer's instructions the application of a PHILOS plate is restricted to humeral fractures. An extension to other anatomical regions of the body is not provided; however, based on the anatomical design of the plate it was observed that the application of this plate also appears to be possible for the distal tibia. This article reports three different osteosyntheses by a reverse PHILOS plate on the medial malleolus and on the distal tibia posteriorly with a short and a long PHILOS plate design.

Long-term results of surgically treated calcaneal fractures: an analysis with a minimum follow-up period of twenty years.

Purpose: Long-term results after treatment of calcaneal fractures are rare. For this reason, we conducted a retrospective follow-up after a minimum of 20 years post surgery.

Methods: Between 1990 and 1994, a total of 66 patients received surgical treatment for displaced calcaneal fractures.

Lack of autofluorescence in fundus albipunctatus associated with mutations in RDH5.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the phenotype of fundus albipunctatus associated with RDH5 mutations.

Methods: Four unrelated patients (patients 1-4) aged 35, 32, 19, and 8 years were examined with full-field electroretinography, multifocal electroretinography, optical coherence tomography, and fundus autofluorescence photography. Molecular genetic investigations included sequencing of RDH5 and RLBP1.